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This App from Mobile Harvest acts as a mobile extension to the National Health Portal of the Government of India (GoI). The app features an intuitive UI that makes the access and discovery of health information easy for the rural audience who are predominantly illiterate or semi-literate. This health information service is planned to be deployed in the panchayats that have recently been connected by broadband by the GoI.

WHO-CC AIIMS with the help of nursing colleagues and neonatologist from SEARO region came out with Essential Newborn Nursing for Small Hospitals with limited resources. The participatory learning tool can be accessed at www.newbornwhocc.org. The core contents are based on current evidence based practices advocated by WHO HQ (PCPNC Guidelines for Health Workers, World Health Organization 2010) and experts’ opinion. The same is converted as “Aide Memoire” for healthcare professionals on smart phones. Modules have undergone pilot testing among nurses and doctors. The feedback suggested has been incorporated. We would welcome suggestions for further improvement.

Use HealthKartPlus to discover cost effective generic drugs that can substitute prescription medicine. Further, you can explore how prescription medicine works & understand the required precaution and contraindication. The application also empowers you to compare drugs by prices, so that you can choose the most cost effective generic drug for a given prescription.

CommCare Mobile sends data over standard phone networks for inspection on the web in real-time. With complex form logic and data validation, CommCare supports a variety of projects, from simple surveys to complex counseling forms.

CycleTel™ is an early-stage start-up initiative in India with the goal of transforming family planning through mobile phones. CycleTel is an SMS-based mobile health product, and the first and only family planning method available directly to a woman via her mobile phone.

eMOCHA TB DETECT includes an interactive TB symptom screeing algorithm based on current WHO guidelines. This free application includes multimedia lectures from experts in TB prevention and care, as well as other educational tools for health care providers caring for patients at risk for TB.

mHELP – is an initiative of the mHealth Alliance aimed at building the expertise and capacity of global health stakeholders using mobile technology for health by connecting them directly to consultations, tools and a network of highly qualified experts in the field.

Designed to bring together the world’s literature on mHealth to make it easier for program managers, researchers, funders, Ministry staff, and other key decision-makers to design and implement effective and efficient programs and remain current with the state-of-the-art. Material is classified using the new mHealth Evidence Taxonomy, developed in coordination with the WHO, and is easily filtered and searched to facilitate the identification of evidence-based, high-impact mHealth practices.

Use of mobile information and communication technologies for improving health. It can be used for a wide range of purposes, including health promotion and illness prevention, health care delivery, training and supervision, electronic payments, and information systems.

Access an online tool previously only made available to the medical profession. Doctors and nurses around the world acknowledge the Isabel diagnostic tool as the clear leader in its field. Using the latest searching technologies, Isabel allows you to research your symptoms based on everyday language. Users simply enter one or many symptoms, and Isabel will search its vast database of 6,000 diseases, instantly providing a list of diagnoses that could be causing your symptoms.

A tool for mapping malaria outbreaks by region. The data can be clustered or individually mapped (as shown). Furthermore, users can zoom in to look at each outbreak and check health worker response/additional malaria cases uncovered.

With Verboice, mother/child health advocates can extend their educational outreach campaigns to communities with previously minimal access to prenatal and maternal health education. From month-by-month updates on what to expect during pregnancy to checkup reminders and newborn care advice, Verboice interactive voice campaigns can make a positive difference that will be felt for generations to come.

Non-electronic device that simplifies data reporting for the most remote workers, including those with literacy challenges. It consists of small cardboard wheels that can “encode” a series of values or pictograms to report into a number that can be sent in via an IVR, USSD or SMS, and a backend service that collects the reports and assists an administrator in defining a wheel and configuring the interactive voice responses. Because the wheels are so simple to build and are intuitive to use, health workers can train each other very rapidly and accurately on how to use them, which in large-scale deployments can translate to large costs savings in training and support.

Improve your data quality by eliminating data entry (and the inevitable back-log, errors, and late nights) and having real-time access to your data so you can spot problems quickly and address them before it’s too late

Free and open-source set of tools which help organizations author, field, and manage mobile data collection solutions. ODK provides an out-of-the-box solution for users to: Build a data collection form or survey (XLS Form is recommended for larger forms);

Collect the data on a mobile device and send it to a server; and

Aggregate the collected data on a server and extract it in useful formats.

In addition to socio-economic and health surveys with GPS locations and images, ODK is being used to create decision support for clinicians and for building multimedia-rich nature mapping tools

A quick and easy calculator to determine a starting dose for a pregnant woman requiring insulin. Using known protocols, users input maternal weight and the trimester to calculate the dose of both long and short acting insulins. Users can even select between regular insulin and faster acting medications.

TweetED: The best of free, open-access medical education (FOAM) from the Twittersphere. FOAM is a revolution in medical education, leveraging social media to keep care providers current on what's happening in medicine right now.

Emergency Rescue System for every citizen under the affordable price range with zero or very low operational cost. "SecureMe" is an app assisted by a small wearable device focusing on raising alert and getting rescue/help instantly.

Lybrate - Find Best Doctors mobile app provides patients with a one-click emergency support system, search tool for nearby ambulance services, and book appointments with best doctors. Its free service allows patients to digitally store and manage their medical records on their smartphone and share with their doctors easily. Critical information like past prescriptions, lab reports, blood group, allergies, etc can be easily accessed by medical practitioners.

ContinuousCare is a health app available on both Android and iOS platforms. The app allows users to stay connected and communicate with their doctors between hospital visits, while sharing their health records. The app allows users to save their health information in a single secure location and share them with their doctors/specialists when required- enabling direct communication with healthcare providers.The app has the following features-

HealthMemo is a smart solution that you can use to upload and maintain your health records electronically. Visiting a doctor for any illness, undergoing surgeries, and buying a new insurance plan brings with it many documents in all shapes and sizes like prescription slips, medical bills, lab reports, x-rays, insurance documents and more. Maintaining all these documents is tedious and it is not possible to carry them around at all times. Digital copies (soft copies) of these documents are rarely provided by the hospitals/clinics. The app is designed to bridge this gap with the help of the ubiquitous mobile phone

The NewbornCare app is based on the "Essential Newborn Nursing for Small Hospitals " Training Tool of WHO Collaborating Center for Training and Research in Newborn Care, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. The app contains menu-based information for managing normal, at risk and sick newborn.

H-Connect integrates heterogeneous health software applications and practices used worldwide to compile into a common platform and deliver it into meaningful methods used by different stakeholders. It offers seamless data integration, global access, unified reporting, alerts as well as analytic and research information which aims to change the health matrix across the globe. H-connect personal health record allows its users to engage in proactive monitoring of his own health through cloud computing, to print emergency medical card and complete health summary. H-connect is also meeting all the prerequisites of EHR standards established by National Health Portal.

PUBLISHED DATE : Sep 17, 2015

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LAST UPDATED ON: Sep 17, 2015

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